Zerbst v. Nahas’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.2d 742 · 1933
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2002
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Aderhold · Mintie v. Biddle
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellee claims the court that sentenced him had lost jurisdiction on the facts stated, and that the sentence was void. The District Judge in issuing the writ and entering the order of discharge probably followed' the rule announced in Mintie v. Biddle, 8 Cir., 15 F. 2d 931 . It will be observed in the opinion in that case that the authorities were not in accord at that time. Since the writ issued and the order of discharge was entered the Supreme Court in Miller v. Aderhold, Warden, 288 U. S. 206 , 53 S. Ct. 325, 326 , 77 L. Ed. 702 , passed on the sub ject. Mr. Justice Sutherland, who spoke for the court in that case, said that the greater number of authorities were in accord with the ruling in the Mintie case, but that the opinion of the court was that the weight of reason is the other way; that in the absence of a request by defendant that he be sentenced ‘he must be held to have consented to the indefinite delay, and cannot complain,’ and the court retains jurisdiction until sentence is pronounced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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